| Charities - 1916 - 666 pages
...honorable men and women. It is true that not all of our children have made good, but "there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it behooves us to not talk about the rest of us." We have mostly been fortunate in securing able teachers... | |
| James Bayard Clark - Medicine - 1922 - 76 pages
...only could." Thenafter a little silence, "how does that thing of Stevenson's go — 'There's so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us' " — "Oh, yes," broke in Mary, "I know— 'That it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest... | |
| 1908 - 826 pages
...also know his neighbor in the medical profession, and thus learn how true it is that "there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us." After all, there is a good deal of truth in... | |
| Violet Tweedale - Ghosts - 1924 - 364 pages
..." in tune with the Infinite " is to be happy, prosperous .and well. We see that " There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill becomes anyone of us To look down on the rest of us." If there is any truth in the statement that " there is... | |
| Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - Smugglers - 1924 - 390 pages
...Perhaps to no other class of men might we so fittingly apply the well known words: "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us," for even the worst smugglers have their good points, — daring hardihood; often charity and courtesy... | |
| Harley Farnsworth MacNair - China - 1925 - 424 pages
...so-called inferior or backward peoples have their innings. Stevenson's famous couplet, " There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us," would certainly seem to apply in the discussion... | |
| William Caine - English fiction - 1926 - 368 pages
...Mark and he murmured with a smile, " Why ! it is to-morrow already ! " CHAPTER V " There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us. That it ill behoves any of us To find fault with the rest of us. — Robert Louis Stevenson. DOWN in the roadway... | |
| Libraries - 1926 - 628 pages
...made of it, is not in itself of particular value in the accumulation of knowledge. "There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us" that it hardly behooves that we should say anything unkind of our fellow-worker's ways. Visitors from England... | |
| Felix Shay - Authors, American - 1926 - 574 pages
...man who held himself superior was a ridiculous figure in his eyes. He believed that there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that no man was permitted the privilege of setting himself on a pedestal. Actually he estimated the proud... | |
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